PLEASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleased mean? 

• PLEASED (adjective)
  The adjective PLEASED has 2 senses:

1. experiencing or manifesting pleasure

2. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth

  Familiarity information: PLEASED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experiencing or manifesting pleasure

Similar:

amused; diverted; entertained (pleasantly occupied)

bucked up; encouraged (inspired with confidence)

chuffed (very pleased)

delighted (greatly pleased)

gratified (having received what was desired)

Also:

content; contented (satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are)

Antonym:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth

Synonyms:

pleased; proud of

Context example:

proud of their child

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

 Context examples 

He saw it at once and said with pleased surprise, "Why, little mother, how gay we are tonight. Do you expect company?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They might do as they pleased amongst themselves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Blunderstone Rookery would come, however, in spite of her, when the carrier's horse pleased—and did.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I will now," said Challenger, with a smile of pleased anticipation, "demonstrate the carrying power of my balloon."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will be pleased with her, I am sure.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The sketch of Rosamond's portrait pleased him highly: he said I must make a finished picture of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lady Bertram was very well pleased to have it so, and the young ladies were in spirits again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

People who have extensive grounds themselves are always pleased with any thing in the same style.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And are you altogether pleased with Bath?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Various as were the tempers in her father's house, he pleased them all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)